Announcing integration of Azure Backup into VM management blade

Today, we are excited to announce the ability to seamlessly backup virtual machines in Azure from the VM management blade using Azure Backup. Azure Backup already supports backup of classic and Resource Manager VMs (Windows or Linux) using Recovery Services vault, running on standard storage or on Premium Storage. We also announced backup of VMs encrypted using ADE (Azure Disk Encryption), a couple of weeks back. With this announcement, we are bringing the backup experience closer to VM management experience, giving ability to backup VMs directly from VM management blade. This announcement makes Azure the public cloud providing a backup experience natively integrated into VM management.

Azure Virtual Machines provide a great value proposition for different kind of workloads that want to harness the power of cloud. It provides a range of VMs offering basic capabilities to running powerful GPUs to meet customer demands. Backing VMs against accidental deletions and corruptions resulting from human errors is a critical capability for enterprise customers as well as small and medium scale customers who are deploying their production workloads in the cloud. This integration makes meeting that requirement seamless with a simple two-step backup configuration.